Posse
# Posse

Posse is a shortened form of posse comitatus, a group of people summoned to assist law enforcement. The term is also used colloquially to mean a group of friends or associates.

Posse may also refer to:

## Arts and entertainment

* Posse (1975 film), US Western film produced, directed and starring Kirk Douglas
* Posse (1993 film), US revisionist Western film directed by and starring Mario Van Peebles
* "Posse (I Need You on the Floor)", a 2001 single by German band Scooter
* Posse cut, a type of Hip Hop song with four or more rappers, in which each verse is sung by a different person
* Posse mit Gesang, a form of German musical drama
* Posse (band), an American indie rock band started in 2010 in Seattle

## Other uses

* Posse (horse), a thoroughbred racehorse
* Posse (surname), including a list of people with the name
* Posse, Goiás, a municipality in the northeast of the Brazilian state of Goiás
* Posse Foundation, a US nonprofit organization that identifies, recruits, and trains student leaders from public high schools to form multicultural teams
* POSSE project (Portable Open Source Security Elements), a software security initiative
* POSSE, a social web and IndieWeb abbreviation for "Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere"; see Micro.blog
* Jamaican posse, a loose coalition of street gangs
